What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.

I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.

I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.

Young and old will sit and judge unfeeling, while the empty churches' bells are pealing. And the green hills lay ignored, untended, lonely watchers remain unbefriended.

Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play.

If it screams truth rather than help, if it commits itself with a courage that it can't be sure it really has, if it stands up and admits that something is wrong, but doesn't insist on blood, then it's rock n' roll.

Rough boys I wanna bite and kiss you.